[nzlug] hardy broke me baby...

[Philip Charles]

On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Nevyn wrote:
> Well I've finally done it. I upgraded my system to Hardy.
>
> Everything seems to have gone fine except.... x is broken.
>
> While I was using vesa drivers before the upgrade, specifying vesa as
> the driver in xorg.conf results in it not working.
>
> I've found that if I remove the driver line entirely, it does start
> but will not let me switch to a console with the ctrl-alt-F[whatever]
> combination. To get back to console I've found that I have to edit
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf and specify the driver as vesa again and then log
> out (effectively restarting the x server) before things go really
> funky and I'm unable to see anything at all on the screen.
>
> Any debugging tips would be appreciated.

I have just sorted out a similar probled with the HH DVD.

I had to specify the video card, in my case sis 6326; and the monitor, in 
my case Viewsonic GS790.  Then I chose a low refesh rate.

Phil.


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